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<p>Hey&nbsp;Chris Dodd,</p>
<p>Why don&#39;t you start backing companies doing it for you every day legally. Netflix, Vudu, Hulu, etc are all above the table and you try to fuck with them every chance you get.</p>
<p>Put your money where your mouth is FAT CAT.</p>
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:16:42 +0000axiomaticcomment 277942 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277901
<p><em>He went on to claim that nearly one-quarter of Internet traffic relates to copyright theft and that the proliferation of sites outside the U.S. are the cause of most of this traffic.</em></p>
<p>I would doubt that even 1/512 of Internet traffic relates to &quot;copyright theft,&quot; because that is the theft of the actual copyright.</p>
<p><em>&quot;We are not talking about overzealous film buffs or political activists making a statement about freedom of information,&quot; Dodd told the crowd. &quot;We are talking about criminals.&quot;</em></p>
<p>Criminals have better ways to make money - such as drugs.</p>
<p><em>He also tried to answer criticism that the entertainment industry is lazy and that it can&#39;t innovate to make money.</em></p>
<p>The criticism is true.</p>
<p><em>&quot;We cannot draw up a business model that accounts for the wholesale theft of our product,&quot; he said. &quot;It&#39;s true for pharmacies. It&#39;s true for the automobile industry. It&#39;s true for software developers. And it&#39;s true for us.&quot;</em></p>
<p>They don&#39;t have to.&nbsp; They have to draw up a business model that accounts for the fact that people don&#39;t want their product anymore.</p>
<p><em>He also added that the entertainment industry cannot survive without the innovations that are constantly being created by the tech industry.</em></p>
<p>It can&#39;t survive with those innovations either.&nbsp; Did the buggy whip survive with the innovation that is the car?</p>
<p><em>He also claimed the copyright laws helped make the Internet we now enjoy possible.</em></p>
<p>The Internet is possible despite copyright laws, not because of them.</p>
<p><em>He also mentioned several companies that support the industry&#39;s efforts to protect their copyrighted and trademarked goods including the UFC and Gibson Guitars.</em></p>
<p>How many millions of dollars were said companies paid by the RIAA and MPAA?</p>
<p><em>&quot;The coalition supporting a crackdown on ... criminal sites includes companies large and small who produce movies, TV shows, music, software, photography, prescription drugs, consumer electronics -- everyone from Gibson Guitars to the Ultimate Fighting Championship.&quot;</em></p>
<p>Again, how many millions of dollars in bribe money were spent?&nbsp; No sane person would support a crackdown on &quot;criminal sites&quot; such as the Library of Congress.</p>
<p><em>In closing, Dodd said that freedom of speech and the ability to innovate does not require a license to steal.</em></p>
<p>The only true statement in Dodd&#39;s entire monologue.&nbsp; But ask yourself this: Did GM and Ford have a &quot;license to steal&quot; from the buggy-whip manufacturers?&nbsp; Or did GM and Ford just out-compete the buggy whips?</p>
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<p><strong>What the MPAA and RIAA are afraid of is not piracy, but competition!&nbsp; They are framing it as a piracy issue that does not exist in order to cover up their own illegal dealings!</strong></p>
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:24:39 +0000psduckiecomment 277901 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277902
<p>No, sorry. He&#39;s no longer a representative. I&#39;m pretty sure most people on this site will agree that big money&#39;s corruption is pretty across the board.</p>
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:09:50 +0000DorthLouscomment 277902 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277897
<p>Ok, I need to be blunt here, does that really fucking matter?</p>
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:32:29 +0000hellfire7885comment 277897 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277893
<p>*MPAA&#39;s Chris Dodd <strong>(D) </strong>Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industry</p>
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:49:19 +0000Neo_DrKefkacomment 277893 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277890
<p>I think it was mostly from Nina Paley the animator, Rick Falkvinge respected blog journalist, and Mike Masnick the economist who runs the blog TechDirt. It also comes from my years of reading studies, articles, economics, copyright law, alternative business models, and logical reasoning. So it&#39;s a little of both. It&#39;s not just me though. I have seen others whom have expressed the same thought on the matter.</p>
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:28:04 +0000greevarcomment 277890 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277888
<p>That&#39;s not what I asked.&nbsp; I know what your view is, you&#39;ve shared it many, many times.&nbsp; What I&#39;m interested in knowing is where it came from or if it&#39;s a greevar original.</p>
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<p>Andrew Eisen</p>
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:07:23 +0000Andrew Eisencomment 277888 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277886
<p>Art is speech, which is the act of passing on ideas and information (it&#39;s also protected under the first amendment, so that makes sense). I think we can logically agree to that. Since artists speak to people through their art, it&#39;s a service they provide. You trade your money for them to express their ideas to you. That&#39;s a service. It&#39;s just as much as service as paying a speaker to give a presentation or paying a teacher to teach. Those are services. Anything where someone passes on ideas and information to others for pay is in a service industry. Artist are selling expressions, which is an action. Selling action (i.e. labor) is a service.</p>
<p>When you think about it, it makes sense logically and economically. As a service, &quot;piracy&quot; isn&#39;t an issue since they aren&#39;t selling goods that they need to control and can&#39;t control. They sell labor instead, which is completely at their control. If they give away the results of their labor (after payment is rendered), people will distribute it to others using <em>their </em>bandwidth, at no cost to the artist. The customers promote the artist&#39;s work by sharing it. Free distribution, free publicity, and a business model that ensures payment for services rendered. The artist only needs to maintain a connection with the audience and produce the art that they want. What&#39;s even better, people can vote with their money what art they want made. Artists work directly for their audience rather than a publisher telling them what to make (i.e. CoD MW 10 or Twilight: The Next Generation).</p>
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:09:56 +0000greevarcomment 277886 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277883
<p>I think Hollywood is in fact pro-technology.</p>
<p>They&#39;re just utterly anti-consumer, particularly when it comes to consumers who use technology.</p>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:21:51 +0000Craig R.comment 277883 at http://www.gamepolitics.comRe: MPAA's Chris Dodd Extends Olive Branch to Tech Industryhttp://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/02/24/mpaa039s-chris-dodd-extends-olive-branch-tech-industry#comment-277880
<p>Likely ignoring that legitimate uses like Steam probably took a good chunk of that</p>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:11:54 +0000hellfire7885comment 277880 at http://www.gamepolitics.com